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Originally posted by Radio Phone
DEATH at Christina being more R&B then Beyonce
You fail with this insane remark.
B2B and Hold Us Down are pretty much the only R&B music from Christina and at that a lot of the songs on B2B were popped up funk music, not even R&B.
Most of the songs Beyonce recorded with Destiney's Child were R&B, and on her solo career, DIL= R&B, B'Day =Funk/R&B, and IASF = Pop/R&B.
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Um Justin and Christina ARE pop.
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The remark is not insane hon. You sound insane denying it, but yet you've listed B2B and CHUD. You FAIL @ thinking JT and Christina are not R&B. Have you REALLY heard their music? Have you heard their influences and compared it to their own work? Prob not! You're just looking @ the color! X-Tina's voice is soulful (Examples: see her perfomances of MTV Movie Awards ANOM, Whitney's IWRTY tribute or James Brown's IAMW tribute.) and she did one of her idol's Etta James "At Last" better than Bey (waaayyy b4 Cadillac Records)! I'm not trying to turn that into a war, but she did. I would have never even heard of Etta or some of the old school Blues/R&B/Jazz singers if it wasn't for X-Tina.
Talk about pumped up Funk music... that was "Work It Out" and the majority of B-day! Christina has more R&B than just B2B and CHUD. From her debut she has LFAS, the original WAGW, SE, SS, WYPYHOM, Blessed and Obvious. TWLCD (b-side) and WAM (b-side). Stripped has LM4M, Infatuation with a Latin twist, Impossible, GMGY, WA, her LE interlude, and Underapp!
FAIL! I wasn't talkin' about DC and learn how to spell Destiny! I was talking about solo Bey for if she was still with the group and never did solo, then she would not be at this level of Popstardom.
Bey: DIL/agree except for BB ft. SP (is not R&B) and HHS ft. Big Boi(Hip-Hop) | B-Day: disagree RTA, SIL(KY) and BL w/ Shaki are Pop, UU ft. JZ is Hip-Hop | IASF: disagree AM is inspirational, Diva and VP are Hip-Hop
X-Tina: debut Pop/R&B/Inspirational | Stripped R&B/Hip-Hop/Inspirational/AC/Rock | B2B R&B/Inspirational/Funk/Oldies/Swing/Jazz
JT: Justified R&B | FSLS R&B and only Sexyback qualifies for Pop/Electronic with an exception to an interlude ITTSK. (If you wanna talk about the past *NSYNC had some on NSA and Celebrity.)
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Originally posted by Radio Phone
In one sense.
And in another sense it's a certain genre of music with a sound unique to it (regardless of whether it's popular or not), along with R&B, rock, hip hop, dance, etc. You keep saying it meaning popular music. You can say pop music meaning popular music if you want but that doesn't mean that same thing as the pop musical genre. If someone told you to give them a good pop song to listen to and you gave them Confessions by Usher (that song was very popular) I guarantee you that's NOT going to be what they had in mind (whereas Don't Stop the Music by Rihanna or Poker Face by Lady Gaga would be a more ideal choice). If someone asked you for a good R&B song to listen to, then Confessions would be a good recommendation.
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I know that whether a song is popular or not it can be considered Pop. That's what I was arguing about in the first place before I explained the popular music definition. In that year when it was hot in '04, CON would have been a good one, but not now. Same for Nelly F.'s "Promiscuous", that's another R&B one that's up there with CON. What's hot now is the Dance/Electro/futuristic sound that you used examples for DSTM and PF. When the sound of Pop changes again, those won't be good either. To an extent those could just as much be isolated to Dance/Electro now if someone asked for a recommendation for a good song in that category.
Anyways the point is that I was arguing about Bey being Pop. I already explained how all of her music is NOT R&B, just like Brit who also has some R&B songs and when that didn't get through the knucklehead I explained the popular music theory. Therefore you have NOTHING to add! I take it that you didn't read all of the argument! >>>>